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Subject: Re: Experience = skill? (was various other threads)
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 14:46:05 -0700

Christine -dot- Anameier -at- seagate -dot- com wrote:

I just reread my post; geez, do I sound cranky!

Just to clarify: I am not feeling hostile toward the folks I quoted. Not in
the least. I'm not even feeling grumpy today. This is just an issue that's
always bugged me, for reasons that date back to my pre-TW days. And it was
such a battle trying to convince recruiters that five years of relevant
non-TW experience plus zero years of TW experience did not mean "clueless
novice."


Christine:

You shouldn't apologize. You didn't sound hostile to anyone, and you're making an important point. Experience isn't the same as skill, but people often confuse the two.

I first noticed the difference in grad school, when I saw masters and doctoral candidates who were good at departmental politics, but had little real scholarship or even passion for their subjects. I noticed it, too, during my brief stint in the STC, where (from what I gather), anyone who has had a membership for five years is a senior writer, regardless of expertise.


Formal requirements may please bureaucrats. But they're not the whole story. Thanks for re-emphaszing this important point.



--
Bruce Byfield 604.421.7177 bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com

Prince, I can hear the trumpet of Germinal,
The tumbrils toiling up the terrible way;
Even to-day your royal head may fall,
I think I will not hang myself to-day.

-G. K. Chesterton, "A Ballade of Suicide"


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